campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. >> in 2005, the girl called nejdra was 17 years old, living in bridgeport, connecticut, with her new daughter, samani. she had found out that the woman she'd always called mom, ann pettway, in fact was not her mother. still, as she graduated from high school and moved out on her own, she kept up a relationship with ann and with the entire pettway family. in 2009, she moved near atlanta, where more members of the pettway family lived. >> i just wanted a new atmosphere for me and my daughter. >> narrator: nejdra found a job as an assistant in a hair salon, and she worked to build a life for herself and her daughter. >> she's a very down-to-earth, strict mom. >> p-e and "r." so, yeah, it's cut off, so i read the rest. >> she makes sure samani does her homework. she makes sure she's on point with everything she needs to do. she's actually a great mother. >> narrator: but being a mother made nejdra wonder about her own mother. >> some days i wake up and look